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Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...2 Professional judgement and practice wisdom - You may hear the terms ‘professional judgement’ and ‘practice wisdom’ used during your ITE course, particularly if you ask a teacher why they made a particular decision about how to teach. Sometimes, it is difficult for an experienced teacher to unpack what lies behind their decision-making processes (Hobson, 2002,...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...2 Crime pattern theory - Criminologists can look at why crimes occur and both where and when they happen. Crime pattern theory looks at the geometry of where crime occurs, based around the notion of where crime activity takes place and how offenders travel through likely places for crime and develop knowledge of those locations. Activity 2 Locations of crime Timing: Allow...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...2 The environmental perspective - Let’s now start the exploration of the sustainability perspectives with the perspective that tends to steal most of the limelight when talking about sustainability: the environmental perspective. [Described image] Figure 2 The environmental perspective What does ‘environmental performance’ mean? When people say the word...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...2 The Qing empire - In the eastern corner was the Qing empire. In contrast to the maritime European empires, this was primarily land based. Its emperor at Beijing, and his bureaucracy (some recruited from Manchu banner men – so called because they were organised around clan banners – and some by competitive examinations), provided a vast, mainly rural population with...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...2 Key HR practices in relation to EDI: the example of bullying and harassment - So far you have considered what EDI is and both the legislation and organisational policies that may exist concerning EDI. However, HR practices are diverse. Specifically, HR professionals develop practices of applying the EDI legislation. For example, people may face discrimination and...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...2 study in Arts and Humanities...The Enlightenment: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the cultural climate that existed as the Enlightenment began understand the main characteristics of the Enlightenment demonstrate an awareness of the cultural shifts and trends leading from Enlightenment to Romanticism...The Enlightenment:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...2 Background of war - The title Between the Acts indicates intervals between acts of the pageant but also suggests, even more potently, the period between the First and Second World Wars. Woolf started writing it in 1938 when war with Germany was looming and when her non-fiction, anti-war essay Three Guineas had just been published. There she argues passionately for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...2 briefly describes the markets in which companies operate and looks in more detail at how limited companies raise financing through ordinary shares and loan capital. Session 3 introduces the interests of company stakeholders, and Session 4 discusses three perspectives on companies and their role in society. Finally, Session 5 compares the formats of company financial...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs